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iff 4-572 (Rev. 7-18-63) tanner rt i SEES ‘ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT e106 aw . ‘Memorandum “10 : The Director DATE: >) aft t FROM : N, P, Callahan SUBJECT: The Congressional Record © Pages H1265-H1273. Congressman Ashbrook, (R) Ohio, spoke concerning the Otepxa case. He stated "His case gives a penetrating insight into cuestionable State Department policies which have found lax security, nm, subversion, immorality, and dishonesty tolerated if not fostered, the same time honest public servants are given the kangaroo court or cold-shoulder treatment. - - - - The vital need for unbreachable y procedures has been pointed up during the past two decades by many of defections, disappearances, suicides, arrests, scandals, and the like, here, not even in the phenomengl Richard Sorge case, have there been ions to rival those of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, and Don Macle: ‘rook set forth informattoh concérning activities of Philby, Burgess x LJaciean. He pointed out that "With recent disclosures in the British pres ere can remain little doubt as to who was responsible for the intelligence Shington which so benefited the Chinese Reds. Philby arrived in g:on as British liaison to the FBI and CIA and in November 1950, Macl to ‘Yashington as head of the Foreign Office’s American department. cton Post of October 16, 1967, excerpted material from the y Times relating to Maclean's role in the Korean affair." ck al'so comments on other cases of lax security by the State and the treatment accorded certain personnel by the State for their efforts in trying to enforce strict security regulations. ok concluded "Otto Otepka illustrates the torturous ordeal that government employees must go through when they challenge the , officialdom in Washington, particularly in the State Department. His \ -case stands as an indictment of the State Department and its policies." Adjournment: Until Taursday, February 22, 1968, at 12 noon. - = RECORDED 341 mar 18 1968 In the original of a memorandum captioned and dated as above, the Congressiona Record for Gt fE SO was reviewed and pertinent items were marked for the Director’s aftention, This form has been prepared in order that portions of a copy of the original memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and placed roprigte 5 Fs e or subject matter files. _s \ perme eeSteg Js) ~